RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Outperforms RTX 5090 by Up to 15% in Early Tests
Two sources have published benchmarks of Nvidia’s latest RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU, offering a first look at its performance compared to the consumer-focused RTX 5090 and other GeForce cards. A Reddit user named Privaterbok shared eight benchmark results, including tests run on 3DMark and Geekbench 6.
The tests covered several workloads such as TimeSpy, TimeSpy Extreme, Steel Nomad, Port Royal, and Geekbench 6. On average, the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell delivers around 10–15% better performance than a stock-clocked RTX 5090. With overclocking, the performance gap widens further, based on RTX 5090 data from Videocardz.
On average, the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell performs within 10–15% of the RTX 5090 , with some tests showing it even slightly ahead—particularly when overclocked. In compute-heavy workloads like Geekbench 6 OpenCL and Vulkan , the workstation GPU shows a notable lead , suggesting strong performance potential for professional applications.
At stock speeds, the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell falls slightly behind the overclocked results of the RTX 5090 , with the GeForce GPU showing an average performance lead of around 5–10% . When comparing overclocked versions of both GPUs, the performance gap narrows significantly—though the RTX 5090 still holds a 5% advantage in Time Spy . In Time Spy Extreme , however, the RTX Pro 6000 manages to take a small lead, outperforming the RTX 5090 by about 1% .
It’s important to note that these aren’t perfect apples-to-apples comparisons. The RTX 5090 scores on 3DMark likely come from different users, each with unique cooling setups, power limits, and overclocking levels.
In Geekbench 6 , the comparison is more direct. The RTX 5090 results were taken directly from the official Geekbench website, where they are verified. In both OpenCL and Vulkan tests, the RTX Pro 6000 shows a strong advantage, performing between 9% and 15% faster than the RTX 5090.
Additionally, Level1Techs ran some gaming-focused benchmarks using Cyberpunk 2077 . At 4K resolution with ultra settings , DLSS set to Performance mode , and path tracing disabled , the RTX Pro 6000 delivered an average of 127.02 FPS . With path tracing enabled , performance dropped to 92.54 FPS —still a solid result for such a demanding workload.
The RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell is Nvidia’s latest flagship workstation GPU — often compared to a “Titan-class” card — and serves as the successor to the RTX Pro 5000 , which was also based on the Blackwell architecture. Featuring 24,064 CUDA cores , the RTX Pro 6000 offers approximately 10% more cores than the consumer-grade RTX 5090 , along with a massive 96GB of GDDR7 memory .
